This poll is the twenty-fourth in an ongoing series of polls being undertaken by the Social Research Centre for the ANU. Their purpose is to assess Australians’ opinions on important and topical issues, with an emphasis on international comparisons. These polls are typically conducted three times a year, or about every four months. Some questions appear in every poll in order to provide information about changes in opinion over time; the majority of questions appear in one poll only. The main focus of this poll was innovation, science, and entrepreneurship, particularly participants’ attitudes to government spending in the science and innovation industry in Australia. The poll covered issues such as general attitudes to risk, opinions on science and innovation, and government funding in the science and technology sector. Demographic and background variables include gender, age, household composition, country of birth, highest level of education, employment status and income. This research is used to inform public debate and policy about issues affecting Australia.

Business innovation;Investment;Research;Science;Technological change;Technology

Population (Universe)

Adults (18 years of age or over) who are residents of private households in Australia

Date of Collection

Start date - Data Collection: 2016-10-24

End date - Data Collection: 2016-10-24

Time Period

Time Period - Start: 2016-10-24

Time Period - End: 2016-10-24

Geographic Coverage

National

Geographic Unit

State

Methodology

Content

Sampling Procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Data Kind

Survey data

Response Rate

Participation rate: 44,7%, AAPOR Response Rate 3: 19.8%

Data Access

Content

Access Conditions

The depositor may be informed (by the archive) of use being made of the data, in order to comment on that use and make contact with colleagues of similar interests.

Deposit Information

Content

Depositor

Sheppard, Jill

Deposit Date

2017-01-20

Version

Version 1.0

Other

Content

Unit of Analysis

Individual

Mode of Data Collection

Telephone interview

Comment

This poll is the twenty-fourth in an ongoing series of polls being undertaken by the Social Research Centre for the ANU. Their purpose is to assess Australians’ opinions on important and topical issues, with an emphasis on international comparisons. These polls are typically conducted three times a year, or about every four months. Some questions appear in every poll in order to provide information about changes in opinion over time; the majority of questions appear in one poll only. The main focus of this poll was innovation, science, and entrepreneurship, particularly participants’ attitudes to government spending in the science and innovation industry in Australia. The poll covered issues such as general attitudes to risk, opinions on science and innovation, and government funding in the science and technology sector. Demographic and background variables include gender, age, household composition, country of birth, highest level of education, employment status and income. This research is used to inform public debate and policy about issues affecting Australia.

The weighting approach that was employed for the national weight involved a two-stage process. The first stage consisted of applying a design weight to adjust for an individual's chance of selection based on three possible factors including the number of in-scope sample members in a household, the number of landlines in the household used for private calls, and/or having a mobile phone. The second step was to apply a post-stratification weight to ensure the final sample was weighted to relevant population benchmarks for age, gender and location and telephony status. Demographic benchmarks used for weighting were obtained from Estimated Residential Population figures (2016) sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These adjust for census under-counting and people overseas at the time of the survey. Telephony status benchmarks were obtained from publically available reports authored by the Australian Communication and Media Authority (2014).

ADA ID

au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01367

Label

ANU Poll 2016: Innovation, Science, and Entrepreneurship

Language

en

Countries

Australia

Type of Research Instrument

Structured

ADA Processing Level

Level 3

Producer

Sheppard, Jill

Producer abbreviation

ANU

ADA Study Level

Level 3

Version Date

2017-04-19

Version Responsibility

Australian Data Archive

Time Method

One-time cross-sectional study

Weighting

The weighting approach that was employed for the national weight involved a two-stage process. The first stage consisted of applying a design weight to adjust for an individual's chance of selection based on three possible factors including the number of in-scope sample members in a household, the number of landlines in the household used for private calls, and/or having a mobile phone. The second step was to apply a post-stratification weight to ensure the final sample was weighted to relevant population benchmarks for age, gender and location and telephony status. Demographic benchmarks used for weighting were obtained from Estimated Residential Population figures (2016) sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These adjust for census under-counting and people overseas at the time of the survey. Telephony status benchmarks were obtained from publically available reports authored by the Australian Communication and Media Authority (2014).

Label: A2a_new. What do you think is the most important problem facing Australia today? [expanded coding frame]

Missing Values: -98 -99

Variable Name: A2a_new

Nesstar ID: au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01367_V12

Invalid Cases: 61

Valid Cases: 1141

notes: A2a_new and A2b_new measure the same question asked in A2a and A2b, but respondents' verbatim answers are coded according to an expanded coding frame. This variable has been introduced to minimise information loss associated with the reduced coding frame in A2a and A2b. Cross-sectional analyses can use A2A_new and A2b_new measures, but longitudinal analyses comparing ANUpolls over time should use the A2a and A2b measures for time series comparability.

Label: A2b_new. And what do you think is the second most important problem facing Australia today? [expanded coding frame]

Missing Values: -98 -99

Variable Name: A2b_new

Nesstar ID: au.edu.anu.ada.ddi.01367_V13

Invalid Cases: 216

Valid Cases: 986

notes: A2a_new and A2b_new measure the same question asked in A2a and A2b, but respondents' verbatim answers are coded according to an expanded coding frame. This variable has been introduced to minimise information loss associated with the reduced coding frame in A2a and A2b. Cross-sectional analyses can use A2A_new and A2b_new measures, but longitudinal analyses comparing ANUpolls over time should use the A2a and A2b measures for time series comparability.